Blair Salmon
Strategic Principal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Salmon is a Strategic Principal with 12+ years leading large-scale cloud and infrastructure transformations, currently shaping Liatrio’s strategic direction after directing BHP’s $110M+ migration portfolio. He has a strong track record of turning struggling programs into flagship initiatives—most notably driving Origin Energy from 4% to 90% cloud-hosted and migrating 450+ applications for BHP while meeting strict divestment deadlines. Blair routinely bridges technical and executive stakeholders to secure buy-in, establish governance, and appoint high-performing teams across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. His background spans consulting, program delivery, and vendor engagement across major Australian enterprises including Medibank, Australia Post, RMIT, and EnergyAustralia. Certified in both Azure and AWS, he combines pragmatic risk and financial control with a knack for prioritised, multi-phased roadmaps that accelerate business value. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic strategist who navigates complex organizational dynamics to make cloud futures tangible.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business Studies Information Technology, Bachelor Business Studies Information Technology at Massey University
English, French
Github Skills (49)
typescript10
access-control-list10
typescript-definitions9
dts9
single-sign-on8
go8
http-proxy8
forward-proxy8
aws7
ssh7
react5
breakout5
kubernetes5
agentic4
provisioning4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bls/ztracer
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:57 commits in 1 month
bsycorp/inkfish
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
A forward proxy for machines, with access control lists
Contributions:1 review, 120 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 3 months
access-control-listforward-proxy
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